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South Korea: Prominent 386ers Help for Espionage ~~ a U.S. citizen spying for North Korea held
chosun.com ^ | Oct.27,2006 10:19 KST | staff

Posted on 10/29/2006 10:21:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Prominent 386ers Help for Espionage

Former member of the Democratic Labor Party central committee Lee Jung-hun, who is under arrest for contacting North Korean agents in China, takes questions from reporters on his way to court in Seoul on Thursday.

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Authorities are holding a U.S. citizen, Michael Chang (44), who they say was trained as a spy in North Korea between 1989 and 1993, became a member of the ruling Korean Workers Party, pledged allegiance to the party, and spied for the North for 10 years. The National Intelligence Service and prosecutors on Thursday also alleged that a former member of the minor opposition Democratic Labor Party’s central committee, Lee Jung-hun (42), and businessman Sohn Jung-mok (42) were persuaded by Chang to join him in spying for the North and until recently provided classified information to North Korean agents.

The Seoul Central District Court issued arrest warrants for the three former student activists on Thursday. The NIS is expanding its investigation and also arrested the vice DLP secretary general Choi Ki-young and another former student activist identified as Lee (42) the same day.

The agency says it amassed significant evidence that Chang was in contact with North Korean agents, visited the North at least three times since 1989 and spied for the North here. The NIS is concentrating its efforts on finding out who was contacted or persuaded by Chang to join him. Chang has reportedly admitted some of the allegation. The agency is investigating whether the suspect also produced encrypted reports, as evidence suggests Chang did. “If it is confirmed that Chang produced coded reports, it follows that he received special training from the North,” an investigator said.

Investigators believe Choi was the link among the former student activists -- members of the so-called 386 generation -- and was also in touch with Pyongyang. Choi, a leading student activist in the 1980s, has extensive contacts among politicians and labor organizations. He was an executive of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and played a key role in establishing the DLP. He served time in jail for violating the law on demonstrations but was given W8.9 million (US$1=W950) in compensation from an official body called the Commission for Democratization Movement Activists' Honor-Restoration and Compensation in March this year. Lee Jung-hun, who took the lead in the three-day seizure of the U.S. Information Service building in Seoul in May 1985, was given W39 million by the commission in November 2001.

(englishnews@chosun.com )

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"Report accuses N.Korea of crimes against humanity"
Reuters ^ | 10/29/06 | Arshad Mohammed

Posted on 10/29/2006 5:15:31 PM PST by wagglebee

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has committed "crimes against humanity" against its own people according to an independent report published on Monday that made a long-shot appeal for the U.N. Security Council to deal with the issue.

Released after North Korea's October 9 nuclear test, the report describes Pyongyang's brutal treatment of its citizens, from the beatings of pregnant women to force miscarriages to the abduction, torture and execution of political prisoners."

The face of a loser:

http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=gadahn